This is the family cemetery of the prominent Tunstall family of Belle Grove plantation. In 2010, it was so overgrown with briers and thick with downed trees it was nearly impossible to access.
Old Man Owen Adkins
Click Here for the Owen Adkins Booklet
This 24-page booklet contains a transcription of a lengthy 1878 newspaper article (6,000 plus words) for which the writer traveled from Danville to the home of Owen Adkins to interview him personally.
PRINTED COPIES ARE SOLD OUT. DIGITAL COPIES ARE STILL AVAILABLE. THANKS.
Pages
- 1812
- Banister Hardy
- Burdett P. Roach’s Obituary
- Capt. John Noble
- Captain Isaac H. Watson Gravesite
- Cemeteries
- Charles Callaway’s Obituary
- Civil War Soldiers’ Graves
- Col. George Hairston’s Obituary
- Col. Isaac Coles
- Col. William Clark’s Obituary
- Confederate Faces
- Daniel C. Edwards’ Obituary
- Daniel Coleman’s Obituary
- Danville Civil War Defences
- David Hunt’s Obituary
- Elder Elias Dodson Graveyard
- French & Indian War
- Gamblers, Whores, & Men of Pleasure
- Genealogy
- Harris Gammon’s Obituary
- Jacob Berger’s Obituary
- Jeremiah Simpson Graveyard
- John & William Dix
- John Smith’s Obituary
- John Wilson’s Obituary
- Joseph Morton’s Obituary
- Keesee Graveyard
- Links
- Lt. James Nance – War of 1812
- Maj. James Sawyers
- Metal Detecting
- Miscellaneous Local History Items
- My Civil War Ancestors
- Obituaries
- Obituary of Robert S. White Jr.
- Obsolete Currency of Danville & Pittsylvania County
- Patriotic Service Details
- Patriots’ Graves in Pittsylvania County
- Pittsylvania County History.com
- Rev. James Beck’s Excommunication
- Revolution
- Reynolds Family Graveyard
- Samuel Calland’s Obituary
- Terry McHaney’s Obituary
- The Civil War
- Captain Robert McCulloch and the Danville Grays at Gettysburg
- Colonel Vincent A. Witcher
- Confederate Units of Danville & Pittsylvania County
- CSA Gravesites
- Danville Arsenal Employees Killed at Staunton River Bridge
- Danville’s Civil War Prisons & Hospitals
- First Ball of the Danville Greys
- Former Confederates Sue for Pardon
- Local Scearce/Scarce Civil War Soldiers
- Obituary of William P. Graves
- The Boswell Brothers
- The Danville Grays
- The Committee of Safety of 1775
- The Lost Graveyard
- The Oldest Gravestone?
- The Other Pittsylvania
- The Tunstalls of Belle Grove
- Thomas Fearn’s Obituary
- War of 1812 Soldiers’ Graves
- William B. Dickson, Pittsylvania Artillery
- William Tunstall’s Obituary
- Gravesites of 1812 Soldiers
